Mother is suing JetBlue after the US carrier flew her 5-year-old son to the wrong city... and then presented her with a different boy

A woman has filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airways for mixing up her 5-year-old son with another boy and flying him to the wrong city.
Maribel Martinez charged in the lawsuit that she suffered 'great emotional distress, extreme fear, horror, mental shock, mental anguish and psychological trauma' when she went to meet her son's flight and he wasn't on it.
The little boy, Andy Martinez, had been mistakenly put on a flight to Boston's Logan Airport instead of the flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport on August 17.
According to the court papers, JetBlue staff at Logan Airport... read more

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